Crossword-Solution: ORPINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Orpine | n. | A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ORPINE | anagram | OPINER, PERNIO, PERONI, PINERO, RIPONE, ROPEIN |
We have 10 clues for the answer “ORPINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Live-forever plant | 1 answer |
| Plant also called "live-forever" | 1 answer |
| Plant called "live-forever.” | 1 answer |
| Plant found in dry places | 1 answer |
| Stonecrop-family plant | 1 answer |
| moss like plant | 1 answer |
| plant everlasting | 1 answer |
| plant moss like | 1 answer |
| everlasting plant | 2 answers |
| type of plant | 32 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
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greedy person
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Sentences with ORPINE (5)
SAXIFRAGEA ORPINE (_Sedum Telephium_).—Also called Midsummer May; grows in Otterbourne Park, and a large bunch on the Romsey Road.
Liveforever (orpine, orpin, livelong, Sedum telephium) Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers.
The _Sedum Telephium_ (Livelong, or Orpine), called also Roseroot and Midsummer Men, is the largest British species of Stone-crop.
The designation Orpine has become perversely applied to this plant which bears pink blossoms, the word having been derived from _Orpin_, gold pigment, a yellow sulphuret of the metal arsenic, and it should appertain exclusively to yellow flowers.
Aureate, Pigment, Orpin, Orpine.] (Chem.) Defn: Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1953–2016).